THE KINDERGARTEN OF T THE FUTURE By FRANK E. PARLIN HE kindergarten of the future will be 'true to its name. It will be generally out of doors, in the sunlight and the open air, among the trees and flowers, and associated with birds and animals, providing healthful conditions for the body, appropriate food for the senses, abundant exercise for the muscles, ample scope for the imagination, and unfailing topics for conversation. The healthy growth of the child will be the prime consideration, large lungs, good digestion, a strong heart, and steady nerves outranking pegsticking and an eager sphere, cylinder and cube. TRUE EDUCATION By ANDREW S. DRAPER, LL. D. ROM whatever cause it arises, the complaint FR is general and seems justified, that we do not train children to do definite things, that the completion of courses cannot be reckoned in efficiency, and that our proceedings do not generate the intellectual resourcefulness and power that they ought. It is a serious charge. But neither teaching to read, nor training to work, nor offering opportunity, nor enforcing the truth, nor all of that together, comprise the sum of the burden that is upon the American schools. The major part is the imparting to the pupil the desire to know, and the power to do, and the purpose to find the truth for himself and act up to it. He must know what men and women have done in the world, where they have succeeded and when they have failed, and why. He must know what manner of social life, what kind of business conduct, has succeeded, and what has failed, and why. He must know that work is a blessing, that participation in the privileges which rational society creates is a privilege, that public service is a duty, and that government is a burden which all good citizens are bound to bear. In other words, his motives must be aroused and brought into conformity with the motives which are the groundwork of the schools. THE MONTH'S REVIEW WHAT EDUCATIONAL PEOPLE ARE DOING AND SAYING Advertising the United States as an educational center is now being done widely in foreign Bringing Foreign countries and with Students to America effective results. The credit for much of this advertising is being taken by the State Department. Representative Foster of Vermont recently gave some details of it in a speech in the national House of Representatives. He pointed out that through the efforts of the diplomatic and consular representatives at Buenos Ayres a United States university club was founded there, which has been the means of sending at least twenty young Argentines to the United States to be educated. The director of the astronomical observatory at La Plata, Professor Hussey, is an American and about twenty officers of the Argentine Navy have spent some time on American battleships studying the naval system. Peru is now employing one American as an educational adviser and another as president of the University of Cusco, one of the oldest universities in the new world. In the same connection, Mr. Fos ter in his enumeration, mentioned the illustrated stereopticon lecture entitled "United States University Life" with fifty-four views of student life at this country's larger men's and women's colleges and universities. This has been given several times in the Argentine Republic under the auspices of the United States University Club of Buenos Ayres. Last January and February a party of five Argentine schoolboys made a journey through the United States and there are now at least four hundred Latin-Americans studying in the United States, and this number is constantly increasing. It appears not only that many students are coming here from Latin-America, but that this government has been persistent in trying to bring this about. The American delegates to the Pan-American Conference held at Buenos Ayres in 1910, were instructed to urge the adoption of resolutions looking to the exchange of students and professors among the countries represented at the conference. In other quarters of the world there has been activity through diplomatic representatives. Through the efforts of the |